30/11/2015

Jordan's task of overseeing the development of a list of organizations fighting in Syria that are actually terrorist groups is a job fraught with potential headaches for the kingdom. The assignment by the International Syria Support Group…

In a recent piece published in the Wall Street Journal, it was claimed that the US urged Turkey to seal its border with Syria with some additional 30.000 troops. In the piece, the daily claimed that the Obama administration requested…

Republicans in Congress are threatening to shut down the government to keep Syrian refugees out of the country. House lawmakers voted 289-137 Nov. 19 to suspend refugee admissions from Syria and Iraq amid fears that Islamic State (IS)…

MAFRAQ, Jordan – Propped against the plywood and metal walls of a community centre in Jordan’s largest refugee camp, dozens of paintings provide a glimpse into the minds of some of the thousands of children who call Zaatari home. An…

I will be voting against airstrikes. David Cameron’s case doesn’t add up to the comprehensive strategy that we need to end war in Syria and defeat Isis The civil war in Syria is complex and devastating. The home of…

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron is making preparations for a vote in the U.K. House of Commons on extending British airstrikes against Islamic State to Syria from Iraq. His office in London is drawing up a motion for a vote as…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday that he found facilities at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to be "really quite nice" and that people there would rather stay or return home to Syria than come to the United…

Homs province: 7 people including rebels were killed by clashes against regime forces after an ambush between al-Hawla and al-Samalil in the northern countryside. A man from Talbisa was killed by aerial bombardment on A'zaz in Aleppo…

Damascus province: 10 civilians were wounded last night by targeting King Faisal, Rekn al-Din, and Bab Tuma. Reef Dimashq province: Clashes took place after midnight between regime forces and rebels around Daraya amid explosive barrels and…

Idlib province: 6 rebels were killed by clashes against regime forces and allied militiamen in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Rose to 21 the including 4 children, the number of civilians who were killed by a massacre by Russian…